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Hello, all! Today is my birthday, and to celebrate, I’m hosting three giveaways for copies of my novels. One giveaway is right here. Just comment on this post between now and Friday the 27th at 5PM EDT with your personal favorite birthday tradition: a food you like to eat, a restaurant you visit, some media you partake…

Tor.com has announced their launch roster for The Imprint, including two books by me in a new series! When I heard the news of Tor.com launching a novella imprint, focusing on digital sales and experimenting with different sales and promotion strategies, as well as offering a higher royalty rate on digital sales, Macmillan had my curiosity. When…

And fortunately, BOOM! are not the only comic publisher pushing diversity and expanding their audience. DC has added Gotham Academy and Batgirl, Marvel has Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, and more. Image has a swathe of comics like this – fewer for all-ages, but many that expand the range of what’s available in comics storytelling.

Some quick historical context: when comes were at their most popular, they encompassed a wide range of genres (especially including romance, a notable missing genre among most larger comics publishers right now, crime, as well as supernatural/fantasy/supers), and the readership was both women and men. It’s only later on that the major publishers narrowed their aesthetic and marketing focus in a way that excluded women and younger audiences. So this intentional expansion of what kinds of stories are being told and what audiences are being invited in is not a question of ‘cheapening’ comics or ‘giving in to feminism’ (which is like saying ‘giving in to equality and compassion’), but more like a return to the breadth of content and readership comics had at its height.

I am excited to see what Push Comics Forward will accomplish, for BOOM! and for comics more broadly.

In both comics and in SFF literature, there’s been ongoing conversations about diversity and representation, to the point that I hope it will prove to be a sea change and not a seasonal or temporary topic. With initiatives like Push Comics Forward, the Destroy Science Fiction anthologies (Women Destroy Science Fiction, Queers Destroy Science Fiction), We Need Diverse Books, and more, I hope that a high standard of diversity and representation will become just another part of what is expected from the comics and SFF literary world. I’ve been doing my best to be part of the equation by writing as diversely as I can, and there are many other writers leading the way in the prose world – Seanan McGuire, Ann Leckie, Kameron Hurley, Max Gladstone, N.K. Jemisin, Saladin Ahmed, and many many more.

Whether these efforts succeed or fail will be decided by creators and consumers both. So let’s Push Comics (and Books) Forward.

2014 was a big year for my writing career, and I’m hoping that 2015 will be even bigger. Here’s how I’m planning on making that happen. Going Hybrid I’m planning on joining the growing ranks of authors who publish both traditionally and on their own, aka ‘Hybrid Authors.’ I’ve got a couple of options on…

That’s right, my third (and final) major release for 2014, the first-in-series Supernatural Thriller THE YOUNGER GODS is here, complete with awkward sorcerers, bizzare monsters, and The Big Apple. Here’s what people are saying: “it’s a marvelous start to a new series – heavy on the action that opens up a new world of mythology…

It’s here! Yesterday, the fine folks at My Bookish Ways revealed the cover for my new paranormal thriller, THE YOUNGER GODS. And here it is in all of its glory: THE YOUNGER GODS will be published by Pocket Star on all ebook platforms this October 13th. You can find pre-order links here…

Back in the day, when I was a fresh-faced n00b writer, I joined a writers group, including the Aggressively Competent Marie Brennan, about to debut with Doppelganger (now titled Warrior) from Warner-Aspect. Marie and I met through a gaming troupe, and it’s been a pleasure to watch her steady career growth, including a huge step up with…

Today I woke to the delightful news that Geekomancy and Celebromancy got recommendation shout-outs from Ramez Naam on Gweek, a BoingBoing podcast. *pinches self* Yep, that happened. Huge thanks to Mez, who is a friend, a wickedly smart guy, and an excellent author. His debut science fiction novel Nexus just got nominated for the Arthur…

Dear all, I’m incredibly excited to share the news that Pocket Star and I have agreed to make the final book in my current contract a Ree Reyes novel, continuing the imprint-bestselling series. Set shortly after Attack the Geek, Ree Reyes #3 will be……

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Featured Books

Leverage meets Jasper Fforde in the Genrenauts - a group of storytellers that travel across dimensions to the worlds where genres live, fixing off-track stories to protect Earth. In this episode, our team travels into deep space of Science Fiction world to help salvage the Interstellar Alliance. More info →

Leverage meets Jasper Fforde in the Genrenauts - a group of storytellers that travel across dimensions to the worlds where genres live, fixing off-track stories to protect Earth. In this episode, the team travels to Western world to stop a bandit posse. More info →

The one moral son in a family of heartless sorcerer cultists flees his family to start over in NYC. But when his sister shows up to kick-start the apocalypse, he has to overcome his social ineptitude and gather allies to stop her, or else the world will burn. More info →

In a city built among the bones of a fallen titan, a desperate group of heroes makes a bargain with their oldest foe to tip the balance of power and try to free their city before the tyrants that rule it can stamp out the heroes' rebellion for good. More info →

It's just another Saturday night at Grognard's Grog and Games until a mysterious power traps the Ree and the regulars inside the bar while sending wave of wave of monsters after them. Roll for Initiative! More info →